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Through a Glass, Darkly: The Rhetoric and Reality of Campaign Finance Disclosure

2014; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.2139/ssrn.2422602

1556-5068

Jennifer A. Heerwig, Katherine Shaw,

Securities Regulation and Market Practices

In Citizens United v. FEC, the Supreme Court swept away long-standing limits on corporate spending in federal elections, but it also strongly affirmed the constitutionality of robust disclosure and disclaimer requirements. In the wake of that decision, many proponents of campaign finance regulation have turned their attention to disclosure as the best remaining mechanism by which to regulate money in elections. At the same time, opponents of campaign finance regulation — including the legal team behind Citizens United — have trained their sights on disclosure, filing new challenges to existing disclosure requirements in a number of state or federal courts, although so far with only limited success.